Harvey Korman Quotes

"You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana."
- Harvey Korman

"You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff."
- Harvey Korman
(Related: Funny, Beginning, Conflict, End, Play, Will)

"They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary."
- Harvey Korman

"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."
- Harvey Korman
(Related: Actor, Service)

"I'm not a star."
- Harvey Korman

"I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago."
- Harvey Korman
(Related: Chicago, Drama, School)

"I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot."
- Harvey Korman

"Funny is when you're serious."
- Harvey Korman
(Related: Funny)

"But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us."
- Harvey Korman
(Related: Kids)

"And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on."
- Harvey Korman
(Related: Eating, Traveling)

"And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure."
- Harvey Korman
(Related: Failure, Feeling, Years)

"Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept."
- Harvey Korman
(Related: First, Man)

"I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me."
- Harvey Korman

"I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me."
- Harvey Korman
(Related: Letters)